California Forward
In the realm of public safety realignment, there are two layers: what is actually happening and how the media chooses to connect those dots and report on the subject.
read moreOur weekly digest of the news in the world of public safety realignment.
read moreDuring the first two years of Realignment, California’s 58 counties will have received more than $2 billion
read moreOn a Tuesday in March more than 50 public safety professional from 21 of California’s 58 counties thought through the best possible route to keeping offenders from re-offending.
read moreAs is always the case, nothing this complex, involving billions of dollars of funding and a shift of tens of thousands of prisoners across 58 counties, is strictly black and white.
read moreIt was another busy week in the world of public safety realignment in California as the implementation of historic legislation that has helped enable California to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons continues.
read moreA ground breaking study of who actually gets arrested in four California metropolitan areas has some surprising results. It’s us.
read moreThe best solutions to complex issues often come from a solid application of the three Cs: communication, collaboration and cooperation. And that is exactly what was going on last month in the CSAC Conference Center in Sacramento.
read moreUpon my release, my wife passed me an iPhone 4S. It was far smaller than the Motorola cellphone that I used back in 1987, when my journey through America’s prison system began.
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